Victorian Children and Childhoods

Glendon College, York University

2275 Bayview Avenue

Saturday 26 April 2025

9:30 am – 5:00 pm

9:30-10:20 am                                  Registration and Tea            (York Hall 317)

10:30-12:15 pm                                  Morning Session                (York Hall 204) 

Lesley Higgins (York University)

“Children of the Belle Époque: Pater and Sargent’s Presentiments”

Jordyn Beaupré (McMaster University)

“Friendless Girls: The Displaced Friendships of Working-Class Girls and the Politics of Loneliness in Victorian Social Reform Work”

Joti Bilkhu (Trent University)

“Prosthetics for Children: The Commodification of Able-Bodied Childhood”

Kiefer Davies (McMaster University)

“Looking/Talking Back: The Child and objet a in Lord Alfred Douglas’s Poems and Frederick Rolfe’s Stories Toto Told Me”

12:30-1:45 pm                                               Lunch                           (York Hall 317)

1:50-2:50 pm                                      Keynote Address I                 (York Hall 204)

Marah Gubar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

“No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Burlesque that Made Burnett Famous!”

3:00-4:00 pm                                      Keynote Address II                (York Hall 204)

Cheryl Cowdy (York University)

“TBD”

4:00-5:00 pm                                         Sherry Hour                         (York Hall 317)